Botflies use live animals like squirrels and rabbits to grow—learn how they get inside and what makes them burst back out.

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 89, No. 2 (Jun., 2006), pp. 152-160 (9 pages) Typical mammal hosts (indigenous rodents and lagomorphs), geographic distributions and phenologies of the five species of ...

I find that the stillsquirming larva is best showcased in a small glass tube, where it can be admired to varying degrees by the proud owners of the pets.Adult cuterebra flies look a little like bees.

They don’t, but that’s only the second most interesting misunderstanding of the bot fly’s biology. Asa Fitch (1809-1879) was a sober-minded scientist not given to flights of fancy.